Quotes About Community

When I take my kids out for dinner or lunch, people smile at us.

What are the American ideals? They are the development of the individual for his own and the common good; the development of the individual through liberty, and the attainment of the common good through democracy and social justice.

No people ever did or ever can attain a worthy civilization by the satisfaction merely of material needs . . .

To make democracy work, we must be a notion of participants, not simply observers. One who does not vote has no right to complain.

All that I would like to be is human, having a share in a civilized, articulate and well-adjusted community where the mind is given its due but the body is not distrusted

We permit free expression because we need the resources of the whole group to get us the ideas we need.

According to Peirce] 'The opinion which is fated to be ultimately agreed to by all who investigate, is what we mean by the truth, and the object represented in this opinion is the real.' … nominalism denies the social altogether … 'the community is to be considered as an end in itself'… knowledge cannot depend on the inferences of single individuals … Logic is rooted in the social principle.

observed by neighbors, vicious and untrue. Not only was there

understanding the excitement that drove this religion requires that we consider always the perspectives of the faithful.

Everyone needs that support-even if at first you don't think you do. Look around. See who's on your side and in your corner. You don't have to go it alone.

I believe everybody in the world should try to help somebody else. Let's say half the people in the world are successful. If they help the other half, hey, you've got no problem.

If you try to stand alone, you're going to fall. The Lord says, 'Cast all your cares upon me'—in other words, lean your entire weight on me—'and I will uphold you with the right hand of my righteousness.

businesses were closed on Sundays,

It was a pity that people did not risk enough to speak out in behalf of one another's happiness and their own.

In ordering one's self aright one helps others to do the same.

Help one another, is part of the religion of sisterhood.

Love thy neighbour as yourself, but choose your neighbourhood.

Sometimes I like to play the soundtracks to famous musicals so we can all sing along. South Pacific is one of my favorites. Our neighbors must hate us.

Another of them died last night. His body was in the bazaar this morning. It lay, with a collecting bowl at its feet, on the charpoy that is reserved for those who die without money or family to bury them. He looked desiccated and his skin had the sheen and color of the dates we eat to break our fast. There are new bodies on that charpoy every week.

Christmas in the woods is so much better than Christmas on the Outside. We do exactly what we want to do about it, not what we have to do because the neighbors will think it's funny if we don't; or because of the kids, who will judge our efforts not by their own standards but by the standards set up by the parents of other kids.

One of the most important parts of education is learning to get along with other people.

We don't have plays and music and contact with sophisticated minds, and a round of social engagements. All we have are sun and wind and rain, and space in which to move and breathe. All we have are the forests, and the calm expanses of the lakes, and time to call our own. All we have are the hunting and fishing and the swimming, and each other.

Somewhere someone is looking to find what you have to offer.

6. Loving yourself means supporting yourself. Reach out to friends and allow them to help you.